No arrest after angry man wields baseball cap at Williams gas station

An irate customer at a Chevron convenience store in Williams had to be scolded and sent on his way by a sheriffs deputy Saturday night after allegedly shouting at a cashier and striking another shopper with his baseball cap.

No arrests were made.

The angry customer became incensed about a lack of price tags on the store's products, said Tino Aguilar, 37, the store's cashier. The customer, described by Aguilar as gray-haired and in his 50s, began to shout obscenities.

When asked to leave, the man said he would have to be forcibly removed.

Aguilar dialed 911.

Meanwhile, another customer asked the angry man to please stop cussing because his kids were in the store.

The shouting man removed a cap from his head and slapped the other customer repeatedly with it.

Colusa County sheriff's deputy Chris Liston said he arrived at the store on Fourth Street to find the offending customer outside, in an agitated state.

"The victim of the hat-slapping was nowhere to be found," said Liston. "He didn't want anything more to do with that, and I don't blame him."

Liston gave the subject a talking-to.

"I told him to get the heck out of there," Liston said. "I was trying to keep a straight face."

Aguilar, who has worked at the Chevron since 1994, did not wish to press charges.

But he had to call 911 again after Liston left, because the angry man returned.

"He stood here and screamed at me some more. Then he gave me his card and told me to call him if I'd like to continue," Aguilar said. "I said, 'Hey guy, you're crazy, man.'"

"I don't get paid enough to deal with this," he said.

Contact Appeal-Democrat reporter Nancy Pasternack at 749-4712 or at npasternack@appealdemocrat.com.